*LOVE WALTZ (1930) Lilian Harvey & Willy Fritsch German Musical Pre-War Belgian

Description

Vintage original 24 x 32 in. pre-War Belgian poster
from the 1930's German musical,
LIEBESWALZER
(
Waltz of Love,
or
Valse d'ammour
), is a 1930 German musical film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Georg Alexander. It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin on 7 February 1930.
This poster was printed for the film's original theatrical release in Belgium and is a stone lithograph, which produces very rich colors and fine detail. The boldly colorful artwork depicts beautiful blonde Princess Eva (
Lilian Harvey
) dancing a Waltz with handsome Bobby Fould (
Willy Fritsch
) in front of a beautiful background consisting of various shades of purple and a jet-black. Unrestored, this poster is folded in fair+ condition with a large chip on the top right corner that goes through the last half of Willy Fritsch's last name; random areas of paper loss, nicks, and tears in the borders; and light signs of wear on the bottom half of the vertical foldline. There are some light creases around various portions of the horizontal fold lines themselves.
The Love Waltz
is a 1930 German English-language musical film directed by Carl Winston and starring Lilian Harvey, Georg Alexander, and John Batten. It is the English-language version of
Waltz of Love
(1930), which also starred Harvey.
Following the introduction of sound films, a large number of multi-language versions (MLVs) were made by UFA to allow its films to reach the lucrative British and American markets. The film was produced by Erich Pommer,
who took an interest in MLVs. The film was part of a transitional stage in the development of MLVs as they moved from direct translations into more varied products tailored to individual markets.